Hunting for fraud with Benford's law in R

2022

TL; DR

In this lightning talk I'll demonstrate how to apply the R implementation of Benford's law (which actually is not about crime or fraud) to identify possibly fraudulent invoice or other data.

Session Details

In this lightning talk I'll demonstrate how to apply the R implementation of Benford's law (which actually is not about crime and fraud) to identify possibly fraudulent invoice or other data.

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